MODEL RAILWAYS

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 04 Feb 2005 18:15

Akalamanaia wrote:Hrmh, my F9 Broke Down, it doesn't run properly anymore, it runs a few laps then it stops, then i have to snap it a little for it to move again,

Are you sure it isn't any dirt track so it doesn't make contact very well? (That would be easy to fix... easier than the engine itself)

BobDendry · Post by **BobDendry** » 04 Feb 2005 23:16

When I took apart my F7 to fit new couplers, it was all good. pretty quick to replace. But when it went back together, it stopped working. After quite a while of sitting examining the first unit, i realised that some contact hoops weren't touching the metal body.

Villem · Post by **Villem** » 05 Feb 2005 07:50

Purno wrote:
Akalamanaia wrote:Hrmh, my F9 Broke Down, it doesn't run properly anymore, it runs a few laps then it stops, then i have to snap it a little for it to move again,
Are you sure it isn't any dirt track so it doesn't make contact very well? (That would be easy to fix... easier than the engine itself)

im shure its the engine not the track..

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 05 Feb 2005 09:56

What was the price of the engine?

Jim-San · Post by **Jim-San** » 08 Feb 2005 11:40

finally I found a Floppy disk that works, anyway I got 2 track designs here made in XTrkCad and also I got some photos of what my track currently looked like (well now its outta date as I got more track but I'll do another pic when I buy £60 worth of points and £11 worth of double straights, then it should be runable) plus sorry about the picture quality as my digital camara is cheap and...well bad anyway, I zipped them all up in 1 easy to get file

YouTube · Post by **Geo Ghost** » 08 Feb 2005 13:36

I'll be having a look when i get home from school later

Jim-San · Post by **Jim-San** » 08 Feb 2005 18:42

you should see what I'm gonna do with my attic, a 11ft by 10ft area of N gauge fun

YouTube · Post by **Geo Ghost** » 08 Feb 2005 18:45

The forst layout design, JPB3, is a very good idea.
i cant see the pics to well because there a a bit fuzzy, but i can c enough.
1 question though...
are you ganna eat those crisps?

im bloody hungry!

Jim-San · Post by **Jim-San** » 08 Feb 2005 19:12

I've already eatten those ones, thats why another one showed up, if you want I could make the images PNGs to keep their "freshness" as BMPs like to go weird with me

YouTube · Post by **Geo Ghost** » 08 Feb 2005 19:37

to late, i got my munch (food) now.
if you took those pics with a cam, were u shaking it a bit. that maybe why they are a bit blurry

Jim-San · Post by **Jim-San** » 08 Feb 2005 19:51

yeah they were taken by a camera, a really cheapy one some thats half the reason for the blurryness, and it prob got shaked alittle too

YouTube · Post by **Geo Ghost** » 10 Feb 2005 13:49

my cam never used to be bad quality. but after using it as a snooker cue wall for a long time, and the lense, where i hit it, it sorta loast its quality a bit

the joys of being bord, eh?

mp3Pro · Post by **mp3Pro** » 10 Feb 2005 16:06

Geo.c Ghost wrote:my cam never used to be bad quality. but after using it as a snooker cue wall for a long time, and the lense, where i hit it, it sorta loast its quality a bit the joys of being bord, eh?

nothing like destroying your possesions to relive the monotony eh?

<--- appreciates the few things he has too much to break them on purpose

YouTube · Post by **Geo Ghost** » 10 Feb 2005 16:20

its a cheap piece of crap (just to put it simpley)
i only cracked the lense, thats all

it still works.... kinda
(arnt we going a bit off this topic?

)

mp3Pro · Post by **mp3Pro** » 10 Feb 2005 16:42

<--- goes off-topic a lot
I always have
now back On Topic

a real hand built (scratchbuilt) model

edit: oops I did it again... this should have been posted in the other thread

Birdey · Post by **Birdey** » 13 Apr 2005 01:03

I am an absolute beginer in model railways... but would love to have one so... is there any pointers that you could tell me... i have looded at books and there isn't any magazine in my local newagency, but first hand expericed people would be good to hear from so...?

Birdey

chevyrider · Post by **chevyrider** » 13 Apr 2005 08:35

Re: Birdey,
I've had both H0 and N scale.
For realism there is not much difference. Both are very detailed.
In N scale 1:160 you can build almost 4 times as much on a certain surface as with H0 scale 1:87.
There for you can build enormous nice landscapes on a plate measured 4 by 8 feet.
On the other hand i found that N scale is very sensitive for dust.
When i didn't use it for more then a week ,i had to clean the tracks by hand before use.

Birdey · Post by **Birdey** » 13 Apr 2005 09:33

Thanks for the advice... i was thinking about using the N scale... but i had a look at them in a hobby shop

gee there're small and over here in Australia they aren't very popular and all the hobby shop around here well don't have many N scale trains/accesories so i have rethought about it and have decided to go with the HO/OO scale, seening as tho there is A LOT more variety. But the real thing i wanted to know is... what books and magazines are good enough to buy... on a very small budget... i am a studney and i am 16 years old so there for i don't really have a good income... i have read 3 books about it... they are 1001 model railway questions and answers, the model railway design manual and the advanced model railways... i am subscribed to the trains.com newletter and i have been looking at the small amount of clubs around my area... what else?

Birdey

mp3Pro · Post by **mp3Pro** » 13 Apr 2005 15:56

Birdey wrote:Thanks for the advice... i was thinking about using the N scale... but i had a look at them in a hobby shop gee there're small and over here in Australia they aren't very popular and all the hobby shop around here well don't have many N scale trains/accesories so i have rethought about it and have decided to go with the HO/OO scale, seening as tho there is A LOT more variety. But the real thing i wanted to know is... what books and magazines are good enough to buy... on a very small budget... i am a studney and i am 16 years old so there for i don't really have a good income... i have read 3 books about it... they are 1001 model railway questions and answers, the model railway design manual and the advanced model railways... i am subscribed to the trains.com newletter and i have been looking at the small amount of clubs around my area... what else?

Birdey

http://kalmbach.com/kpc/default.aspx?c=mp&id=3

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http://walthers.com/

YouTube · Post by **Geo Ghost** » 13 Apr 2005 21:02

Birdey wrote:Thanks for the advice... i was thinking about using the N scale... but i had a look at them in a hobby shop gee there're small

You should see Z gauge then

Z and N can be expencive (over here in the UK any way)
HO/OO is probably the best IMO detail can be better, and its cheap for the size

Hence why i use... or i should actually say 'Used' HO/OO.

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